Kelly Rigg is the Executive Director of the Global Call for Climate Action (GCCA), a global alliance
of more than 300 organizations collaborating under the banner of the TckTckTck campaign. She has been
leading international campaigns for nearly 30 years on climate, energy, oceans, Antarctica and other
issues. She was a senior campaign director for Greenpeace International and a founder of the Varda
Group consultancy providing campaign and strategic advice to a wide range of NGOs.

Much of her campaigning has been aimed at achieving strong results from international fora. From 2004
to 2009, she coordinated the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, an alliance of more than 60 NGOs
worldwide, working to achieve a UN General Assembly moratorium on high seas bottom trawling. She led
Greenpeace International's campaign on climate and renewable energy at the 2002 World Summit on
Sustainable Development, and the international campaign to save Antarctica from 1986-1990. She
has been with the GCCA since 2009, as it came together in the run-up to COP 15 in Copenhagen.

She began her career in the US, campaigning against the massive increase in offshore oil drilling
proposed by James Watt and the Reagan administration.